Homemade Ptarmigan Stew Recipe

What do you do when your son bags five ptarmigans and two spruce grouse seven minutes into an afternoon hunting expedition? Why, whip up a new homemade ptarmigan stew recipe of course!

Various types of ptarmigans live in different habitats across our home country of Canada, as well as the United States and parts of Europe. They’re easy to hunt, and make a tasty stew or soup. Apparently they hang around with spruce grouse in our area.

While we mixed the ptarmigan and spruce grouse in this recipe, feel free to use it with just one type of bird. Alternatively, substitute partridge if that’s what’s available in your neck of the woods.

After my son cleaned and gutted the birds, he cut them up into one-inch chunks. And then I stepped in to finish up.

I cooked this ptarmigan stew recipe on our propane hotplate. It was just too hot here a couple of weeks ago to build a fire in our stove. However this is a perfect recipe to simmer away in a cast iron dutch oven on a woodstove.

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